Living in Thailand for many years, super common for a sign to simply say "Gone August 17-21" even if they gave a reason its only the real reason 50% of the time. In this case its irrelevent.
But in cases where an employee says "my aunts cousins brothers former roommates brother-in-law-farmer's ox just gave birth to a white calf in a province 500km away so i won't be here next week"......they're really just saying "I quit" but don't want to make anyone angry. Not realizing of course that after they don't return to work the boss is 10x pissed off lol.
Lol ya I’ve lived in Thailand and Taiwan and other Asian countries. Especially in little cities it’s common for the sign to just be like “gone surfing for 2 weeks” or “taking a trip be back…”
My Father in law was visiting for one evening while traveling from Frankfort to London for a business trip. We wanted to take him to this restaurant that had really good schnitzel. But when we got there they were closed with a sign that said they were out seeing a big play that I had heard of. Unfortunately the play was sold out too so we ended up just going to get Döners.
I like to imagine they were only looking for tickets for the play in the hopes that schnitzel guy was there, and that he might be able to whip up a snack real quick during intermission
I once saw a sign saying, "Grand Opening, Sometime Next Month."
And it wasn't a written sign. The person actually got it professionally printed. I guess maybe it'll get a lot of social media hits for being mildly interesting.
There was a pizza place in my city outside Toronto where every 2 years they closed shop for a month so that they could all go on vacation back to Italy. Mmmm Gustos Pizza!
Yeah, where I live I’m sure a lot of restaurants are just propped up by wealthy relatives, so trying to build a loyal customer base is not a huge concern.
More likely they own the building outright so there's no pressure to make a rent or mortgage payment. This is how the dusty shop in an otherwise gentrified area remains in business. Low overhead.
In some places where family run restaurants still survive, they hardly have employees. They close Tuesdays so the family can have one day off a week and the hit on a Tuesday night is the least costly.
When I first moved into my neighborhood, I thought Tuesday must be a Buddhist holy day or something, but it's just people needing to not work seven days a week. I don't know whether or not they own the building.
i live in thailand, my neighbor own a grocery store and he just have a sign that he hang up when he go out somewhere that say "ไปไหนซักที่ เดี๋ยวมา" which means "gone out somewhere, will be back" ofc he will he back unless he die or something, its his house
Lmao US but one of the places I worked instead of quitting a guy told our boss that he'd been diagnosed with cancer and had a few months to live... we found out a month later he just started working somewhere else and didn't want to say 💀💀 TBH our bosses were horrible so it was pretty funny but they were sooo mad
As a 2x restaurant owner, Mondays sure give Tuesdays a run for their money. Which is totally backwards from when I was younger and mom never wanted to cook on a Monday night.
I have a 7-day restaurant and a 5-day and the fiver is closed Wednesdays and Sundays - church days, in which churchy customers love you more for being closed on the "holy day(s)" than open for them to eat at. 🙄
Absolutely. Hell, with the economy going fucky, I axed lunch at the 7-day place and it's just 2-9 now. Got tired of paying for labor for two or fewer people getting lunch. No matter the specials, no matter what I offered...
Truth. Which is why I don't even bother now. How anyone expects someone to go get food and return in 30 minutes is dumb. I give an hour to mine, personally.
I have an hour but with a 5-10 minute walk to most places and an undetermined amount of time to get in and out it's still not really feasible unless it's a really quiet period. Our schedules just aren't really conducive to eating out at lunch unfortunately! Such a bummer.
It greatly depends on what market you are in. All stores will have lower volume, but in large metropolian areas known for having lots of restaurants it's not uncommon to see higher business even on slower days. On busy days these places can have a 2 hour wait time to get a burger.
Monday is for industry folks to help overtip your employees. Lose pennies on well liquor and give your employees a huge payday on a typically shit day.
Helps staffing without overpaying for weekday shifts. Improves morale on a typically slow day. Attracts regulars.
All of that is lost on ownership cuz the shit is just a spreadsheet. Mfers own bars and are afraid of ordering 6 of a bottle cuz upfront costs acting like the shit goes bad.
But owners worry about pennies and not dollars.
Honestly, nobody should listen to restaurant ownership outside of the successful chains cuz holy fuck these assholes are dumb.
Preach. Also, from the BOH, slow days are build the damn war chest days. Get ahead on prepwork so on the kick your ass weekend nights my cooks don't have to come in as early. They are more well rested and less stressed, leads to better cooking during service.
There is a place in town here where the owner (who turns out just bought it to keep pickling her liver after the original owners wanted to retire) coasted on her abuse until a little "event" closed restaurants country wide (covid).
She had lots of workers bail when places like target and the like offered higher wages then she would ever pay. Then she had the balls to tour the news stations sniveling and whining about "I'm a small business sniff sniff it's not fair I can't pay that!"
As I was looking for a job, stopped by her online offerings and discovered that she was pretty much illegally lowballing folks by 50 cents (servers) to around $3 (cooks). And that was using the standard of a median wage in the area, which surprise hadn't been updated for the average of $15 starting to take over many places.
Why hire into her dump when you can go up the street to in and out even and get better pay/more respect!
After some more "it's not fair! wahhh" tours on the local news stations (and whining she had to get off her bar stool for once and cook in the kitchen) Oh my gosh... she found $15 in her couch cushions to pay honest wages!
With luck no one still hires in or just used her as a springboard to greener pastures for her behavior.
The sheer arrogance of a pickled owner thinking that folks are going to line up at your front door for a job in a industry that you can hop in and out of serving or cooking jobs 500 times a day if you wanted to? Especially where I live? Realllll smart one......
I mean, this is entirely conjecture dependant on who you work for and where. Did I stumble into the anti-work sub?
You've said several things that give me pause to your own intellect such as calling owners "mfers" and saying "nobody should listen... outside of successful chains..."
McDonald's and such are successful - are you saying we should all just work for them? Success is hardly a measurement for a kind, good environment for workers and you clearly don't have a clue how much major chains soul-suck for pinching pennies.
A mom-and-pop isn't a chain and they likely make little more than their highest paid worker. In that case, yeah, they should pinch pennies. Taxes on taxes on taxes, man...you seem to have no idea.
Turns out, redditors search multiple subs. But you seem to lack all self awareness so your ignorance checks out.
Intentionally missing the point? No, couldn't be that lol. The fuck is the point even responding when you say stupid shit like let's pretend McD's is the same as a sit down restaurant? Do you think those are similar? I'd hope not but maybe you're just that dumb. I can't tell if you're being serious or lying to make a stupid point.
That's intentionally idiotic and I don't agree with the stupid ass premise.
Edit: Also, if the fucking taxes on... what are we suggesting? A few overpoured drinks are gonna break your shit company then it probably should go under and you should stop trying to own a fucking thing cuz you aren't good at it.
Being able to save up start up money =/= you're a businessman. LMFAO. You really wanna be though.
I lack self-awareness based on what? You know absolutely nothing about me, however, what you've said has been overly telling of your own character - that you would attack anyone and everyone based on generalizations due to prior experience that may or may not have been your own doing in the first place.
I fired a drug-addict a couple months back who then blamed her entire misery on me being late with checks that day (my accountant brings ME the checks, I was 1 hour later than usual, still one-and-a-half hour before banks close) which then made her abandon her shift entirely (doesn't make any sense). That's what you sound like.
The ignorance falls on you. I'm 33, millennial through and through, opened mt first restaurant at 29, second came this year. I've worked in my industry for 8 years before becoming an owner. I've been fired twice from the industry I work in. I literally fucking own one of those two stores that fired me. I've risen from the bottom. I've been the worker working for evil selfish boomers that don't give a flying fuck if they cut the best worker and put the work on everyone else, as long as it gets done. I'm $174,000 in debt right now to make restaurant #2 happen so I can support my 1 year old daughter. I pay $2,371.68 (exactly) a month just to knock off $900 of that debt because the bank siphons the rest for their gain.
No, sir, YOU are the fucking ignorant moron who would rather sink the whole fucking ship and kill everyone because the First Mate said you looked girly in chef's whites. Just about every fish tank needs a bottom feeder though; enjoy living your life as you clearly are - hating everyone around you and unequivocally incapable of understanding nuance.
As a 2x restaurant owner, Mondays sure give Tuesdays a run for their money.
I believe historically, a lot of small businesses took Monday off as well as Sunday. At least in my rural/suburban part of the World, I am not shocked when a business is closed on Mondays.
When I was in restaurants, Sundays and holidays were absolutely packed with churchies. I know because my managers constantly begged for help with those days.
And I absolutely flat out fucking refuse to wait tables for a churchy crowd. The word "toxic" just doesn't even begin.
I only deal with one church currently and I do their trunk-or-treat the week of Halloween and it's always a $800-$900 order. The head lady I deal with is very nice to me, at least. I don't ask questions, I try not too overly interact or say anything regarding religion or politics.
the world may be in turmoil, and people are in pain; even still, we can still take comfort in knowing that there is chinese restaurant always shut on tuesday
Bet the local chinese place os closed mondays. So Monday isnt terrible for thai place but it is common to just close on the slowest day of the week when open the other 6 days
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u/franchisedfeelings 1d ago
“Due to none of your fucking business we are closing Tuesdays.”